Getting your timbers graded is a crucial step in timber framing, ensuring that the lumber you use meets structural and safety standards. Building codes and insurance companies often require graded timbers, and they provide assurance of the wood’s quality and […]
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J. Scott CampbellJ. Scott Campbell is the owner of Maine Mountain Post & Beam in Fryeburg, Maine. The company specializes in the dismantling, restoration and re-assembly of antique timber frames. They also cut new timber frames using historically correct design
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Don and Cristy CarlsonDon and Cristy Carlson are the owner-designers at Cougar Creek timber Frame, LLC in Winthrop, Washington. We asked Don how they came to start their new business and he replied, “After four years working in the Timber
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Jason & Carrie Frank are the owners of Woodland Improvements, a logging and lumber company in Milaca, Minnesota which was started in1991 and specializes in White Pine & White Oak Timbers. Their custom services begin with logging timber at the stump
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Rob WheelerRob Wheeler is a second-generation builder in Kimberly, British Columbia. Along with his partner, Carl Lauren, he is Co-Owner of Tyee Log & Timber. They specialize in log homes, log post and beam, timber frame and hybrid homes, as
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If you have ever been to Europe, most likely, you also visited a hundreds of years old castle dating back to the Middle Ages. All those turrets and high walls took your breath away and, duly impressed, you retired for
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Dwight Smith is President and owner of Hamill Creek Timber Homes Ltd. They are located in Meadow Creek, at the north end of Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada. Hamill Creek is a timber frame company that designs and builds
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Bruce and Cyndy Gardner Co-Own Homestead Timber Frames, located in Crossville, Tennessee, just about a mile off Interstate 40. They told us: “We take our craft seriously. Our business supports our craft and not the other way around. We enjoy
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Jim Rogers owns and operates Jim Rogers Sawmill and Jim Rogers Timber Designs in Georgetown, Massachusetts, and is active with Vintage Tool NE. Jim Rogers Timber Design assists owner builders with detailed, dimensioned drawings of their project frame. The company uses
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(Dai) Yoshito Ona founded and leads Daizen Joinery, located on the shores of the South Thompson River in Kamloops, British Columbia. They are a specialty timber frame operation that carefully balances precision technology and superior hand craftsmanship to deliver the
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MoreSun Custom Woodworking, Inc. has a busy timber frame shop in Long Creek, South Carolina, and an office and furniture shop in nearby Mountain Rest, South Carolina. Founded in 2002, it began as a simple one-man show when Stephen Morrison
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Do you ask yourself “Can I build my own timber frame?” In this episode we take a look at cutting a timber frame yourself and whether or not you have the skills to be successful. Cutting a frame is tough
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